On Thursday, the John Bel Edwards administration released its executive budget.

Anticipated is a roughly $440 million dollar shortfall for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017.

The total revenues expected based upon the January revenue estimating conference for Fiscal Year 2017-2018 has decreased by $397.6 millionThe general fund requirement is roughly $9.9 billion, leaving the current unmet expenditure requirements are $440 million.